MidiBox SID turns Commodore 64 into 4-voice, 8-bit analog synth
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted June 9th 2008 11:29AM
posted June 9th 2008 11:29AM
posted June 9th 2008 11:29AM
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the doom joke is getting old.
so i herd u liek milhous
doom on this, yea thats pretty possible.............
The only thing doomed is your sense of humor.
If you are a musician who has a little DIY skills you should check out the other Midibox projects over at http://www.uCApps.de/. That is where all of the project schematics are kept. They range from midi controllers to sequencers to even an FM synth based off of the old soundblaster audio cards.
video coming anytime soon?
Video of the original build (not the one pictured above) here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrgdErwTJ5o
On a related note, this rocks!
At least it runs Crysis at 0fps. That's as good as my computer.
Your computer must be terrible then.
apparently as bad as your sense of humor...
Ahh, PEEKs and POKEs. Reminds me of a programming book I had for my ZX81 called 'PEEK, POKE, BYTE and RAM'. My 5 year old brain didn't know what it meant; but my father found it very amusing. May have got him into computers too.
I shudder to think what I'd get back if I typed that into Google with the filters off...
If they don't already have these, I'd expect Daft Punk to be wiring two of these bad boys up to their pyramid of sound gadgets as I write this.
Programming music on the C64 using the SID chip... I remember it well. What is scary, though, is just how long ago (June of '83) I got that machine.
Poke 53280,0
Poke 53281,0
Set the background and boarder colors to black. First thing I did everytime I turned on the switch. Can't believe I still remember that after 20+ years. Sprites and SID commands are a fit fuzzier.
..what about the old stand-by to reboot..
sys 64738
What was 38364 for? That's a number I remember poking on my c64 a lot. Was that cursor color?
Yes but does it sound like SID, the orbital Space Intruder Detector from "UFO"? That would make it truly cool.
Noise ratio of 12dB no doubt.
Does it record output to the tape drive?
I built a Midibox 64 (another DIY project built on the MIdibox platform), and found the community there very helpful and the process fairly easy - even for an electronics never-ever. MIdibox has been around for years, and TK (Thorsten) is the guy that drew up the original code and schematics.
As for the Noise comment, it's quite good, actually. TK's full time job was (imagine) developing midi hardware for a living, so he knows what he is doing.
A work of art.
Holly crap, that's amazing, i would love to make some loops with that.
I hope I'm not reading anything wrong:
"and an additional 8 SID sound chips (for a total of 8)"
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